The Journey So Far
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Vienna to Amsterdam: Via The Romantic Road
Fussen itself is picturesque but the big draw at the south end of the Romantic Road is unquestionably the fairytale castle of Neuschwanstein. Absolutely stunning, and well worth going out of our way to see it. The story behind it is fascinating, along with the tragedy...
Montenegro to Vienna
Bosnia lies just above Montenegro and while it has many more attractions our plan was just to visit historic Mostar and revisit ( even more historic ) Sarajevo. Mostar ( and Sarajevo ) were heavily damaged in the Balkans war and evidence of that conflict is still very...
Romania to Montenegro
Our travels in the former Yugoslavia back in 1990 were brief but did take us up through the bigger cities in Serbia so on our route back to northern Europe we sought to drive around it this time. From Romania, that meant swinging southwest down to Bulgaria then...
Romania: Counts, Castles, Transylvania & The Transfagarasan
We’d both heard nothing but good things about Romania from all of the folks we knew who had been there. That, plus the fact that it was completely virgin territory had us really looking forward to its offerings. While it did not start so well, it quickly improved and...
Detour to the Balkans
Well, not quite a “detour” in the strict sense of the word I suppose, since travel in the Balkans was in the “Europe” plan - it was, in fact, always to be the other half of the first leg of our Europe trip ( after Scandinavia ). Here I will back up just a bit,...
Sweden & Denmark
Oslo is barely a couple of hours from the Swedish border and like most others in the Schengen zone one crosses it almost without noticing. Stromstad - suddenly LOTS more RV’s around when we are looking for a place to park up at night. On the advice of our friend,...
